The U.S. is already expanding offshore oil production: Shell just received permission to start a new drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico. Nothing could possibly go wrong with offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, right?

Renewable energy projects, on the other hand, have run out of time to apply for the recovery act's $1.6 billion in loan guarantees.

And in New York, a peahen, the second recent escapee from the city's zoo, was found hiding in a Bronx garage. (And yes, it got on Twitter first.) Bet the guy who found this fugitive was just glad it wasn’t an Egyptian cobra.